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GARDAÍ HAVE CONFIRMED that they have discovered the body of missing 22-year-old Mark Dillon.
Mark, who was a student at DIT, had been missing since 1 April.
He had last been seen in the Aungier Street area of Dublin 2 on Tuesday evening.
Gardaí in Naas said today that his body had been found.
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Please god let them find some evidence that’s its the plane so the friends and familys can start mourning and put this awful tragic time in their lives behind them
It’s a pity in this day and age, that black boxes can’t hold data and info in the “cloud” as opposed to in a physical black box!
Ever tried the wifi in the southern indian ocean?
Correct! They need ships on the water to check out the debris once it is located before it goes under the surface again. Unfortunately this area has been labelled “as close to nowhere as possible” which is extremely saddening and hard to bear for the families concerned.
It’s a pity the didn’t continue making the Catalans sea planes used during the Second World War . They would be perfect for this role as they could land on sea when they see a debris field and confirm or deny it’s linked to this plane . Could there be submarines in area now listening for the pings and could also check out these debris fields. I guess they are doing there best
I can assure you that the Catalan would have a very slim chance of landing in that sea area and no chance of taking off again. I’ve been down that way twice, it is dog rough and unpredictable and even going out on deck on the largest of ships is highly dangerous so I don’t envy those with the job of securing any wreckage out of the water. HMAS Success has a bigger crane than the one shown[I think] and even then will need the highest of skills to lift anything bigger than a few hundred kilos in such seas.
They will need a fleet of ocean going fishing trawlers to comb the area otherwise they will only retrieve bits and pieces of flotsam.
A fishing trawler?? I’m not sure you’re being serious, Chris, or having a laugh. The latest search area is 2500km off the coast of Australia in some of the most remote and inhospitable waters on the planet. What fishing trawler would be of any use there even if it could manage a 5000km round trip? They are having to bring in massive icebreaker ships and some of the largest naval vessels just to reach the area.
Unfortunately even if they find the black boxes, they will probably still be mystified as to what happened. Incredibly in the modern age, flight data recorders only capture the last 2 hours of cockpit recordings, as they continuously record over every 2 hours. This means the recordings from the critical phase, 60 minutes after takeoff when it deviated off course, are lost forever.
I heard that joe but if they do find the recorders they are digital recorders and two hours of talking time is actually a lot , I don’t think it’s like old tapes that continue to run regardless , certainly in the radio business we run digital snoop tapes that only run when the presenters talk and not record the songs for example so in music stations 2 hours of actual talking can cover 12 hours or more so I may be wrong but I think the 2 hour thing mightn’t be the biggest problem , finding the recorders is a hell of a challenge
I’ll stand corrected but I’m pretty sure the CVR is realtime. It only records in two hour loops recording across four audible channels, recording all cockpit sounds, voice and cockpit surroundings. It’s an important point a few aviation experts have already made – that the final two hours may reveal nothing, though I would hope it could still capture the engine flame out.
It’s not too long ago that regulations only insisted that 30 mins was required from the CVR.
I’m far from aviation expert on this subject and would stand corrected in those specifics , it seems like a very restrictive use of modern technology if they only have 2 hour loops — but 30 mins limits was definitely too restrictive , common sense never mind aviation knowledge would tell ya that !
This is an interesting development………
A identical sister of this very aircraft that went missing is according to a plane spotters site is currently in storage in a hangar at Ben Gurion international airport in Israel since November 2013..
http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Boeing/777/28416,N105GT-GA-Telesis-php
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